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I've finished installing Linux Mint on a VM and I'd like to start learning about RSync. I'm interested in creating a cron task that syncs files between two folders on different VM's.

Thanks for the guidance.

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Have you tried googling rsync and do you know about Unix man pages? You can get a manual for most commands with man commandname in the terminal. – SvenW Dec 5 '10 at 0:21
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http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/rsync/

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-use-rsync-transfer-mirror-files-directories.html

http://www.fredshack.com/docs/rsync.html

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Thanks for the links! Just a quick question, do I need to run an RSync daemon on every machine that will sync to each other? – Sergio Tapia Dec 4 '10 at 15:26
On primary only while content is synced, but on secondary daemon must running and listen. – Ryszard Stawiarski Dec 4 '10 at 15:30
You can run rsync without running it as a daemon on either side in most cases if you have other transfer methods available, most commonly SSH and NFS (or other shared file systems). I never had a rsync daemon running on any machine where I used it. – SvenW Dec 5 '10 at 0:19
rsync works best with a remote shell, whatever that remote shell is. rsh works as well as SSH, but obviously isn't recommended for security reasons. – jgoldschrafe Jan 20 '11 at 3:46
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